Fine I'll bow to the crowd, but the skeptic in me believes this term came about because somebody couldn't spell memorise, given that's exactly what memoization is (memorising the result of a function call).

> ![screen shot 2013-10-30 at 08 24 25 1](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/162976/1432549/8d77334e-40e0-11e3-9a94-51d9add2578d.png)
Just saying...